I've just tried running the SVN version of netcfg which includes the
following change:
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Add support for udhcpc. This was based on Luk Claes but changed to
avoid dropping support for dhclient, dhclient3 and pump for now.I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb to test udhcpc, but it failed miserably as it did not manage to get a lease during netcfg. How well was this tested? It did work when run from a debug shell: # ip link set up dev eth0 # udhcpd udhcpd (v1.14.2) started Sending discover... Sending select for 10.19.66.61 Lease of 10.19.66.61 obtained, lease time 7200 Another issue is that I could not find a lease file anywhere, which makes troubleshooting network issues more difficult. It also means that using udhcpd would break setting a preseed file from the DHCP server config [1]. And we have had bug reports in the past when that no longer worked. As there was no lease file I could not verify if the "filename" option was even included in the lease or not. Cheers, FJP [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html#preseed-dhcp See also dhcp_preseed_url() in preseed.sh.
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